It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
friendship thetimes time friends grow friend
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
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The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.
rich credit
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
future past amazing creating
Television is a corporate vulgarity
television corporate vulgarity
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.
literary-criticism insight
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the same of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
memory
To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.
honor consciousness moral
We are getting to be of an age when it is difficult to grow new friends; we haven't the energy, the time to cultivate; each one gone is a permanent impoverishment.
age thetimes time
Suppose, deep down, you suspect that you are dull, and your public works are a form of vengeance. You talk a good poem, and think by numbers. Once upon a time, you were interesting; then Mother died and you had to give it up.
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Somewhere in the Bill of Rights is a Pig Amendment; our freedom to stuff ourselves cannot be abridged. Having so stuffed, we demand a technological solution to the fat problem. Give me cyclamates, or give me death! This is not only immoral; it is also boring.
rights death
In God's body shop, each of us was customized. But science came along to substitute statistical inference for free will. We are now a tribe of likelihoods.
science
You can't invent yourself as you maunder on. Your fabrications aren't going to impress the blood test, the urinalysis or the chest X-ray. Science is not amused.
tests science
Granted, religion is wishful thinking, but there is no other kind of thinking.
religion
Run from the Furies, and they find you, as if fear were a homing device, as if literature itself, on contemplating the abyss, were an invitation to jump into it, while Wagner whistles.
literature
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